Best Sword Art Online Songs

ModernSpongeBobSucks
This list is a countdown of what I consider to be the best songs from the anime series Sword Art Online. For this list, I'll be including songs from Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online: Extra Edition, and Sword Art Online II (and probably future anime installments in the future such as the new Ordinal Scale movie and Sword Art Online III) that I found to be enjoyable. These can range anywhere from Crossing Field by LiSA or Ignite by Eir Aoi. With that said, Sword Art Online fans and anyone else who likes these songs regardless of what they think about the anime, cast your votes!

The Top Ten

1Crossing Field - Lisa

I've always loved this song, I never skipped the intro.

This is a classic anime opening. It has to stay at #1. - Solacress

This is the best opening song ever!

It's origanal

2Ignite - Eir Aoi

I just listened to this song for the first time, and wow, did it blow me away! After hearing Crossing field, I thought for sure it would be the best opening in the show, but this one gives it some competition! - Solacress

Been a while since I heard it but it is defined my favorite of the bunch. For whatever reason I can't even imagkne myself listening to Sao songs in English (extremely out of character for me since I'm usually the exact opposite with other shows even in anime.) - HeavyDonkeyKong

Way better instrumental.

3Shirushi - Sword Art Online 2

This is the best ending song of SAO. There's no ending song in this show that even comes close in my opinion. I love it. - Solacress

4Courage - Haruka Tomatsu

After listening to all these songs a lot, I have decided that Courage, out of all of them, is my favorite opening. Call me weird. - Solacress

5Innocence - Eir Aoi

All of the SAO openings are great, it's hard to order them from favorite to least favorite, but this one is in the bottom half. It's still amazing though. - Solacress

6Startear - Luna Haruna

7Overfly - Luna Haruna

The only good in this damn song is dubbing it into German - PrinceOfFire

Get out of here. You actually think the original song is bad? The lyrics are very endearing and the voice of Luna Haruna herself made this song a true masterpiece. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

8Yume Sekai - Haruka Tomatsu

Asuna is a good singer - Solacress

9Catch the Moment - Lisa

Fell in love with this song the first time I listened to it. Probably my favourite alongside Crossing Field - Goku02

10Adamas - Lisa

When I listened this opening for the first time, the next episodes I didn't skip them. Love it!

I love this song. I download the other day and I never skip the song.

The best opening!

The Contenders

11Niji no Oto - Eir Aoi

12To See the Future - Tomori Kusunoki

13No More Time Machine - LiSA

14Smile for You - Sayaka Kanda

Once the climax comes to a resolution, Yuna's fifth and final song, Smile for You, comes to fruition. Surprisingly enough, Smile for You isn't just a touching song that acts as a proper farewell for Yuna as her soul leaves the world a second time and embeds the memories of her time in Aincrad to all SAO survivors, but it's also the closest thing to Sword Art Online having a song that sounds like something from a Disney movie! It helps that Sayaka Kanda, the voice of Yuna, also voiced Anna in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Frozen! To put it simply, Smile for You achieved something great in being the closest a Japanese animated film has to having a Disney song! That said, Smile for You is a wonderful song that will leave you in tears towards the end of Ordinal Scale. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

I literally cried when I listened to this song. No kidding - MLPFan

Me too. Seeing Yuna sing a farewell song before dying happy with her wish to sing fulfilled made me tear up quite a lot. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

15Longing - Sayaka Kanda

Curiously enough, the first minute or two of Longing may sound familiar to those who have watched Fate/Zero, as Longing's melody sounds very similar to the second opening song of Fate/Zero, "To the Beginning", by Kalafina. Regardless, Longing still manages to make itself stand out from To the Beginning solely by tone and rhythm entirely. One could say Longing is the less tragic sibling of To the Beginning. Also, I tried researching if Kalafina had any involvement in this song, and I never managed to find if they had any involvement in Ordinal Scale. Based on that, it could only mean Sayaka Kanda sang Longing herself with only Yuki Kajiura's chorus collaborating with her! Japanese Anna never fails to impress! - ModernSpongeBobSucks

16Break Beat Bark! - Sayaka Kanda

Mondegreen aside, Break Beat Bark! is a song that speaks of inspiration and perseverance. The song truly fits in perfectly towards the climax as Kirito and Eiji finally duke it out with each other, both as foils to each other in a duel to restore their respective love interests' memories. I couldn't have imagined a much better moment to showcase this phenomenal masterpiece of a song than at the concert and parking lot duel. All things said, Break Beat Bark! is a sensational song that tells you never to give up. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

17Ryusei - Eir Aoi

18Iris - Eir Aoi

19Ubiquitous DB - Sayaka Kanda

Ubiquitous DB's lyrics aren't lying when they say Yuna will forever be ubiquitous in your memories. Ubiquitous DB has an upbeat melody and catchy beat that matches Yuna perfectly for her as an AR pop idol singer. Whether you're singing along with the chorus like Silica or rocking your head in rhythm like Asuna, Ubiquitous DB is guaranteed to make almost anyone move to the beat of this amazing song. Trust me, I love this song so much that I can't stop listening to it! Probably my favorite Yuna song out of all 5! - ModernSpongeBobSucks

20Delete - Sayaka Kanda

Delete as a song on its own already conveys an ominous tone within its lyrics and rhythm. Just hearing Delete play in suspenseful moments throughout Ordinal Scale such as when Eiji had Klein cornered and facing impending doom from a boss's magma-like hands and when Eiji had Laser-Guided Karma bite him in the neck at the hands of a fearsome dragon in a parking deck only made those scenes more tense and uneasy than they already were. That said, Delete is without a doubt Yuna's most ominous song that works well with Ordinal Scale in the moments the going gets tough. - ModernSpongeBobSucks